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Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <839364888snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
>           tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk "Tom Wheeley" writes:

>> So therefore, what I need is an easy to use set of programs -- most probably
>> for Windows (running '95), that I can integrate lots of utilities into
>> (I will want to add a smart mail forwarding system at least, plus perhaps
>> some more complex utilities).

>Please?

I think that the requirement 'ease of use' conflicts with 'powerful
and extensible'. There's plenty of off the shelf software that is easy
to use on Windows, but its not really intended to be hacked about
with.

I would have thought that something like Windis would be best, as it
largely retains the DIS paradigm and the source is freely available.
You would still need a separate offline/online news and mail client to
use with it, and I think these would probably represent a reasonable
compromise in terms of ease of use. 

I use Pegasus for email and Free Agent for news, but I don't think
these would be very extensible as they use their own file formats, but
Pegasus is fairly powerful and has a gateway feature.

Regards,
-- 
Bob Cousins, Software Engineer.
http://www.demon.co.uk/sirius-cybernetics/